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Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

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Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: December 18th, 1939

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